Hot-water bottle and foot warmer



M. M. DESSAU HOT WATER BOTTLE AND FOOT WARMER Oct. 7 1924.

Filed Oct. 29. 1923 Patented (lot. 7, i924.-

UNITED HOT-WATER BOTTLE AND FOOT WARMER.

Application filed October 29, 1923. Serial No. 671,562.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORLAND MIoHOLL DnssAU, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at London, England, have invented Improvements in or Relating to Hot-Water Bottles and Foot l/Varmers, of which the followingis a specification.

The object of the present invention is to improve the manufacture of india rubber hot water bottles and foot warmers.

With this object in View the body of the bottle or equivalent has its walls made from i a single blank of raw or plastic rubber and so extended beyond a top as to enclose the filling mouth piece and handle or handles, if employed. A bottle or footwarmer made in this way is of attractive appearance and presents no objectionable protruding memers militating against comfortable use of the device. Raw rubber such as that known as smoked sheet in appropriately shaped blanks is employed, the parts when assembled being vulcanized in any suitable way, conveniently by the Peachey cold process. Since the surplus rubber possesses the same value for the production of compounded rubber as the original sheet, considerations of waste do not enter into the choice of the shape of blank involved in the manufacture of the bottle.

The accompanying drawings illustrate how the invention is carried into effect, Fig. 1 being a part sectional perspective view of a convenient form of water bottle. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of a convenient form of footwarmer which can be moulded. Fig. 3 is a cross section of the same and Fig. l is an end view of a portion thereof. Fig. '5 is a view of a former with the aid of which the body of such a footwarmer can be made.

As shown in Fig. 1, a blank of raw plantation sheet rubber i is folded about one side and united so as to produce a body closed at one end by a bottom j and extending beyond a top is so as to surround the filling mouth piece m and handle at or two such handles.

In some cases the water bottle or the like may be produced by pressing a sheet of raw rubber initially treated by some softening process into forms which can be readily assembled and united.

Thus in Figs. 2, 3 and 4, there is shown a moulded body part 0, produced in amanner analogous to that ofFig. 1, it may be with the aid of the former of Fig. 5, so as to extend beyond a moulded top part 19 to which the mouth piece for filling is fitted. a" being a moulded closing cap 1", that is inserted into the body part 0 so that the whole constitutes a compact foot warmer. Parts thus moulded may be produced from raw rubber or compounded dough.

What I claim is 1. A container of the character described, comprising a body of india rubber having a substantially fiat top provided with a centrally disposed filling aperture and a fun nel-shaped mouthpiece communicating with said aperture, the walls of said body being extended beyond said top and enclosing and protecting said mouthpiece the perimeter of the cross section of the portion of the body that extends beyond said top being substantially the same as that of the corresponding cross section of the main portion of the body; the appearance of the container being that of a body having no projecting part, substantially as described.

2. A container according to claim 1 in which the top in addition to a filling aperture and funnel-shaped mouthpiece com- MENT OFFICE. 1'

municating with said aperture has carrying means secured thereto, means and mouthpiece are enclosed and protected by the projecting portion of the body, substantially as described.

3. A container of the kind herein referred to, comprising a top having a filling aperture therein, a funnel-shaped mouthpiece communicating with such aperture, and a body of india rubber the walls of which eX- tend beyond said topythe perimeter of the cross section of the portion of the body that extends beyond the top being substantially the same as that of the corresponding section of the main portion of the body, the filling mouthpiece being enclosed by the projecting portion of the body, substantially. as described. U p I which carrying 4. A container of the character described composed of sheet rubber shaped to form an oblong hollow body closed at one end and having its other end extended beyond a top 5 enclosed in said extended portion, said top having a funnel-shaped filling aperture therein and a handle, also enclosed in and protected by said extended portion of said body, the assembled parts being joined toget-her in a practically integral structure Withoutextraneous fastening means.

Signed at London, England this 19th day of October, 1923.

MORLAND MICHOLL DESSAU. 

